| The Next Generation | |
| 101 | |
| Redemption II | |
| 45020.4 | |
Continued from last time...
A space combat! Ships actually shooting at each other! Is this really TNG? It certainly is, and all the ships concerned are Klingon. The ship that Worf has transferred onto is being badly hammered and true to the Klingon ideal, rather than escape they head straight for their sun. Rather than plunging in, in a way that Disaster Area would have been proud of, they warp out at the last minute causing a solar flair to destroy their pursuers. I wonder if they will name this one the "stupidy-stupidy-Manoeuvre"?
Picard wants to be bold. Does he want to seek approval for the Federation to enter the war in support of their allies? Nope - it's a purely internal matter. The Prime Directive seems to preclude having any friends. He wants to interdict the Klingon homeworld so that the Romulans cannot aid the Duras. To do it he shanghais of all the nearby Federation ships to create of 23 strong blockade. Unfortunately most of the ships don't have captains, so the bridge crew of the Enterprise is dispersed amongst them.
The Klingons are celebrating the pure joy of battle - by head-butting each other into unconsciousness. It bet they also like soccer! I think we can now guess why they have those huge brow ridges, if they didn't they'd have a split skull after their first party.
The Federation interdiction squad head out to the Klingon/Romulan border and set up an active tachyon net that will detect even cloaked Romulan ships. Clever stuff that, using tachyons means that they will be able to detect a Romulan ship before it even gets to the net - very forward thinking policing!
The Romulans hail the Enterprise asking just exactly what they are doing - a little fishing me-thinks. The hailer is again the Tasha Yar clone, who now claims that she is Sela, Tasha's daughter. This is explained as follows: Picard, in an alternate time-line sent the now-not-dead Tasha Yar back into the past with the Enterprise C. She was captured by Romulans, had a child and was executed. Picard doesn't remember any of it since he was not in that timeline. Guinan the plot-device comes in to explain it to him.
The play gets a little rougher at the Klingon celebration as Worf is hit on the back of the head with rocks. Obviously this is normal behaviour as no-one does anything to stop it. He is dragged off... and awakes with Duras' sister perched on his chest and growling at him. How anyone could be turned on by that is beyond me. Worf seems to concur.
The Romulans think that they can beat the tachyon net by sending a burst of static at Data's ship and then slip by unnoticed. Unfortunately they picked the wrong sentient coke-machine to try that trick on. He manages to analyse the tachyon spread, and fires photon torpedoes back at the Romulans showing them clearly. Since they can't now help the Duras, they run back to Romulus leaving Gowron in control.
Gowron gives the life of Duras' son Toril to Worf. Worf acknowledges that it would be the Klingon way to kill him, but is not his way, and asks Picard if he can have his commission back. Picard wimps out and lets him return.
